Robynettely

LHC #275: "The Only Good Indians" by Steven Graham Jones. eBook. Loved it. There's another book by him on my list, and I'm not sad about it. The character development was beautiful. I think horror might be good at that! Highly recommended.  LHC #276: "The collected novellas of Stefan Zweig". eBook. Another one that I have no idea how it ended up on my list; clearly recommended by someone. The library Holds tool really needs a notes field, where I'm sure I would faithfully note "recommended by: " or some such thing. Anyway. I'm almost tempted to describe this as horror. At least for me. The character development was very rich. Not my thing maybe. So patriarchal.  "Build : an unorthodox guide to making things worth making" by Tony Fadell. This was my office book club's Autumn selection. I got it from the library in hard copy because it would be faster than waiting. Also, I feel like I might be serving the library better getting...

  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   So that funeral scene, I looked for where to cram it in (fortunately I have a calendar of the events).  Persephone  (probably not its real name): I think I figured out the ending.  Short Stories:   Finished one, for some definition of finished.   Critted  4  Got back  2 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Blushing Cloud  (Knitty S/S24). Started the month with 10.5 inches of back done. I might have 14 now, depending on how much I'm allowed to stretch it.  Hamilton  (Self). Started the month maybe 2" from armhole on the body. I had to do algebra to figure out the sleeve decreases! 3x+4y=133; x+y=37. x=15; y=22! But then I realized I didn't need algebra, I could have just done 37/133=3 R=22, so I would do 15x dec every 3 rows and 22x dec every 4 rows. I finished the body to the armholes, and started the first sleeve.  Seamless s...